02-21-2016, 04:53 PM
Thanks LL-user, I'm ready to try any steps which will explain and untangle my situation.
I ran the "id" command in the PCLOS terminal and this is what I got (you'll obviously see that my username is "brian"):
Same command in my Mint terminal gives the following:
And in Linux Lite, exactly the same as Mint except for "...109(lpadmin)" where Mint has 107.
So while this doesn't mean a whole lot to me, I can of course see that the UID and GID in PCLOS are different from those in my Mint and Lite setups.
The question is, what should I now do? The logical conclusion would seem to be that I ought to change the UID and GID in my PCLOS installation. Is this possible, and not too difficult? I don't want to break anything. And I suppose I should change the "groups" number or ID too? How easy or complicated is such action?
I don't want to do anything that will mess up my Mint and Lite setups, both of which work well. PCLOS is a third option as OS which I will use much less often. So while it would be nice to set up working symlinks to enable it to access and share the existing DATA partition used by Mint and Lite, this isn't absolutely vital. I'd just like to tidy things up, if I can do so without too much complicated work....
I ran the "id" command in the PCLOS terminal and this is what I got (you'll obviously see that my username is "brian"):
Code:
uid=500(brian) gid=500(brian) groups=500(brian),
7(lp),19(floppy),22(cdrom),80(cdwriter),81(audio),82(video),83(dialout),100(users),496(polkituser),501(fuse)Same command in my Mint terminal gives the following:
Code:
uid=1000(brian) gid=1000(brian)
groups=1000(brian),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),107(lpadmin),110(sambashare)And in Linux Lite, exactly the same as Mint except for "...109(lpadmin)" where Mint has 107.
So while this doesn't mean a whole lot to me, I can of course see that the UID and GID in PCLOS are different from those in my Mint and Lite setups.
The question is, what should I now do? The logical conclusion would seem to be that I ought to change the UID and GID in my PCLOS installation. Is this possible, and not too difficult? I don't want to break anything. And I suppose I should change the "groups" number or ID too? How easy or complicated is such action?
I don't want to do anything that will mess up my Mint and Lite setups, both of which work well. PCLOS is a third option as OS which I will use much less often. So while it would be nice to set up working symlinks to enable it to access and share the existing DATA partition used by Mint and Lite, this isn't absolutely vital. I'd just like to tidy things up, if I can do so without too much complicated work....